Remote Mining?

[IlbiStarz]

Hey everyone,

So I'm about to go on vacation. I wanted to ask the community if there's any way of "remotely mining".

First of all, can you turn on a computer remotely at all? If you can, is it possible to control it completely, such as telling it to mine? Or is it only possible by something like...say a script?

My plan is to turn on the computer and tell it to mine from about 5pm - 10am the next day, and turn off the rest of the hours because it'll probably get too hot. If I could control it completely that would be great. If you can't would a script like this be possible?

Start the script at exactly 10am. Tell it to turn on in 7 hours (which would be 5pm)
*mining script and everything
Tell it to turn off in 17 hours. (which is 10am)
Repeat?

Thanks guys!

Edit:

Now that I think about it, I don't think there's a way of turning the computer off and still running a script. Instead of turning off, maybe something like hibernate?

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[nuke]

If you turn your computer off, there should be another one on to wake up that computer (Ethernet Wake on LAN), and after that your script will run again.
OR
You simply stop your miner in the hottest hour of the day and put your computer in idle, the power consumption will be really low.

[grod]

Not hard at all.  Modern hardware supports ACPI RTC alarms to wake the hardware up.   MythTV DVRs use this functionality to wake up right before a show needs recording, then go right back to sleep.  Between RTC support and cron you could implement exactly what you described, modulo hardware failures or brownouts.

As far as remote access, just ssh in.  That's what I do.  ssh -X, x11vnc and it's just like being there on the keyboard.

[IlbiStarz]

If you turn your computer off, there should be another one on to wake up that computer (Ethernet Wake on LAN), and after that your script will run again.
OR
You simply stop your miner in the hottest hour of the day and put your computer in idle, the power consumption will be really low.

Hmm yeah I'll probably just stop the miner then. I'll only need to use WoL once then.

Not hard at all.  Modern hardware supports ACPI RTC alarms to wake the hardware up.   MythTV DVRs use this functionality to wake up right before a show needs recording, then go right back to sleep.  Between RTC support and cron you could implement exactly what you described, modulo hardware failures or brownouts.

As far as remote access, just ssh in.  That's what I do.  ssh -X, x11vnc and it's just like being there on the keyboard.

Uhmm could you explain more for me? Is this for Linux > Linux? Is there a way for Windows > Linux?

Also, how do I find my MAC address and ip address? (I know my ip address but it changes a lot, how to make it the same?)

[Vod]

Also, how do I find my MAC address and ip address? (I know my ip address but it changes a lot, how to make it the same?)

If you don't want your IP to change, order a STATIC IP from your Internet Service Provider.  Or get dynamic DNS.

[rearwheels]

You can take a look at something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Woods-59377-Digital-Appliance-Settings/dp/B000IKQRTU/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1309787119&sr=8-8

Goto your bios, set it to turn on after a power loss.

Then let the timer device do the trick to cut the power and turn it back on.

This is probably the easiest solution, but if you are running windows or your miners keep writing logs, your filesystem may face some problem.